| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"She Loves You" by The Beatles
In the UK:
"Little Children" by Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Mike Mansfield
(TIME Cover: March the 20th, 1964)
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Famous people born on the 23rd of March: |
1723 - Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, King of Iran (d. 1771)
1749 - Pierre Simon de Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1827)
1887 - Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967)
1910 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (d. 1998)
1944 - Michael Nyman, British minimalist composer
1968 - Damon Albarn, English musician (Blur and Gorillaz)
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1964 |
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Jean-Paul Sartre
1905-1980
for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age
France
Photo: nobelprize.org
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| Average price of a dozen eggs in 1964 (USA) |
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$0.54 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1964 |
My Fair Lady
directed by George Cukor
with Rex Harrison (Professor Henry Higgins), Stanley Holloway (Alfred P. Doolittle) and Gladys Cooper (Mrs. Higgins)
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Designed in 1964 |
The Telephone 'Grillo'
by Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper |
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